Mosé in Egitto !!! Size:XL: 100 x 75cm incorporating the Shaftesbury Academy

incorporating the Shaftesbury Academy

View of the Custom House from the quay with figures outside

' A child buying from a hot cross bun seller

ornamented with dead cats and broken kettles is now smart and clean

driven by E Weaver

Mosé in Egitto !!! Size:XL: 100 x 75cm incorporating the Shaftesbury AcademyMos in Egitto !!!, 1875. The Conservative Prime Minister, Disraeli, holds the key to India. This relates to the purchase by Britain's government of the Suez Canal shares. Egypt's Khedive had tried to sell them to a French company but when negotiations broke down, he offered them to the British government. This was accepted with some alacrity as shown by Disraeli's rather smug expression. The Suez Canal was often known as the key of India. From Punch,